In an expletive-filled speech to his team Dec. 2 after he was fired as Nebraska head coach, Bo Pelini did not mince words when it came to his relatinship with Cornhuskers AD Shawn Eichorst.
“A guy like (Eichorst) who has no integrity, he doesn’t even understand what a core value is," Pelini told players in an audio tape listened to by the Omaha World-Herald. "And he hasn’t understood it from the day he got here. I saw it when I first met with the guy.
“To have core values means you have to be about something, you have to represent something, you have to have something that is important to you. He is a f— lawyer who makes policies. That’s all he’s done since he’s been here is hire people and make policies to cover his own ass.”
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Pelini had more choice words for Eichorst and the whole situation surrounding his dismissal. But he told his former players that he knew the end was coming.
“It didn't surprise me how it played out," he said. “At the end of the day, it’s hard enough to build something. You’ve got to have everybody going in one direction. And it wasn’t. Everybody wasn’t going in the right direction.
“There were agendas and that goes all the way over to the chancellor's office. And between the A.D. and the chancellor and they want their own guy in here, go ahead. Good luck to ya.”
Pelini has took the opportunity at his introductory press conference to make a statement that could be interpreted as a dig at his former administration.
Pelini called Youngstown State president Jim Tressel “a president who understands football, who’s going to support me, something I don’t know that I’ve ever had."
After hearing about Pelini's comments, the school issued a statement which in turn, ripped Pelini.
Here is Nebraska's response to Bo Pelini's recent remarks. pic.twitter.com/za5IOdaR9p
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) December 17, 2014Pelini went 67-27 in seven seasons at Nebraska. He was fired on Nov. 30.